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Hi!
While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
that glibc could not be built reproducibly.
The attached patch addresses several issues:
1. The source tarball will now stay identical despite variations of
the time of the build, user, group, umask and file ordering.
2. version-info.h currently captures the build time and the current
kernel version. In the context of Debian this is not really useful
and a new patch simply removes it. The behavior is now the same
if built under Linux or not.
3. nscd uses the date and time of the build as a version marker. So a
patch is added to allow the build date to be set externally. The date
of the latest debian/changelog entry will be used instead of the
current time for Debian.
Once applied, glibc can be built reproducibly in our current
experimental framework.
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
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